The St. Louis Cardinals first baseman, as always, put up what are indisputably MVP numbers -- .357 batting average, 37 home runs, 116 RBIs, a .462 on-base percentage, a .653 slugging percentage. There were other commendable candidates, but when the results of the voting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America were announced on Monday, the writers had selected the single most logical and most dominant player, Albert Pujols."